Belt-buckle.



No.'866,982. I PATENTED SEPT. 24, 1907.

' J. D. TEMPLETON.

BELT BUCKLE.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. 23, 1907.

W/TNESSES INVENTOR A TTOHNEYS THE NORRIS PETERS co.. WASHINGTON. n. c.

JOHN D. TEMPLETON, OF ADA, OHIO.

BELT-BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 24, 1907.

Application filed April 23,1907. Serial No. 369,846-

To all whom it may concern:

, Be it known that I, JOHN D. TEMPLETON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Ada, in the county of Hardin and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Belt-Buckle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to buckles for waist belts, suspenders or the like, and has for its object to provide novel details of construction for a buckle, which afford a neat, simple, practical and inexpensive device of the character indicated.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, .as is hereinafter fully described and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in allthe views.

Figure 1 is a front face view of the improved buckle. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional View of the device,

showing it mounted on a belt shown in part, the details being adjusted for sliding the buckle before it is clamped upon the belt. Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 2, but showing details of the buckle in clamped condition on the belt, and Fig. 4 is a rear face view of the buckle frame, seen in direction of the arrow in Fig. 2.

The improved buckle consists of but two parts 5 and 6, 5 representing a frame and 6 a hook piece that rocks on the frame. V

As shown, the buckle frame 5 is formed preferably of plate metal, cut and bent into form, the main portion or back wall 5 thereof having a substantially rectangular contour. Upon the opposite edges, that in service are at the sides of the buckle frame, two similar flanges 5 are formed, which project forwardlyfrom -the back wall 5*. The side flanges 5 that for convenience may be termed wings, have their upper corners rounded and in each wing near said corner, a circular perforation a is formed, as shown for one wing in Figs. 2 and 3. Upon the normally lower edge of thebuckle frame 5, a series of spaced teeth I) is formed, these teeth being inclined forwardly and downwardly, as appears in Figs. 2 and 3. The hook piece 6 of the buckle is also formed preferably of plate metal, cut and bent by proper dies into the shape shown. The width of the upper part of the hook piece 6 is so proportioned that it fits loosely between the Wings 5 As shown at c in Figs. 2 and 3, the upper or head portion 6" of the hook piece 6, is bent at an obtuse angle,

- and about the transverse center of the hook piece a V-shaped section thereof is removed, thus affording two hook members 6 which are given proper form by bending said members outward and upward, which disposes the hooks at a side of the hook body that is opposite from that having the head portion 6 bent thereon. Upon the side edges of the bent head portion 6, two pintles dare formed, that project outwardly and oppositely, having dimensions that adapt them to respectively have a loose engagement within the perforations a in the wings fi As shown in Fig. 2, the hook-piece 6, if rocked outward from the back 5 will correspondingly remove the edge e therefrom. This will afford space for the insertion of a portion A of a belt or the like, and the latter will hold the hook-piece in the position shown in said figure until the latter is manually folded.

The inclination of the teeth b forwardly and downwardly adapts said teeth to bear upon the adjacent surface of the belt material A, while the arrangement of the hook piece is as shown in Fig. 2," but the teeth will slide on the belt fabric so as to change the position of the buckle on the belt.

When the belt is to be tightened upon the waist of a wearer, the hook piece 6, that has been rocked outwardly for shifting the buckle, may be folded intocontact with the belt A, as shown in Fig. 3, which will embed the teeth b into the fibrous material of the belt, while the transverse edge e of the head portion 6 bears upon the same. A female portion of the belt securing means, not shown, butthat may be of usual form, is now hooked upon the hook members 6 which will put draft strain on the teeth b and prevent slipping of the buckle on the belt. The coaction of the bent and pivoted head portion of the hook piece with the buckle frame having the inclined teeth, arethe dominant features of the invention.

Slight changes in design of the details may be made Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and'desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The combination with a buckle frame having a flat back wall, a series of teeth projected forwardly on the lower edge of the back piece, and two wings on the side edges of the back piece having opposite perforations therepiece having a laterally bent head portion, pintl'e's on the 10 in, of a hook piece having a laterally bent head portion, head portion which occupy the perforations, and two pintles on said head portion that occupy the perforations, spaced hooks on the lower portion of the hook piece.

and a hook on the lower portion of the hook piece. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this 2. The combination with a buckle frame having a flat specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

back Wall, a series of teeth projected downward and for- JOHN D. TEMPLETON.

ward from the lower edge of the back piece, and two wings Witnesses projected forward from the opposite side edges of the back VERNON E. TEMPLETON,

piece, and having opposite perforations therein, of a hook C. L. CONNER. 

